The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-01

$685., $3.50 for state revenue and S235 for
school fund.
The assessment rolls of yesterday show
an increase in Val Verde county of S19S
504, and in Concho county of $50, 495, and
decrease in the following counties: Cal
houn county, Sl9i,S11; Victoria county,
$4S,51O.
The secretary of state fled a charter
yesterday for the Farmers Alliance Co.
operative association, of Grayson county.
Capital, $4,000. Incorporators: James
Marvel, f. II. Stroud, Il. W. Savage, o. p.
Jones, R. S. A. Barnett, j. F. Brown, j. B.
McMackin, W. F. Fisher and W. II. Brown.
Governor Ross yesterday pardoned a
man named John Werringer, who was
convicted in Austin county in 1880 on a
charge of rape and sentenced to fifteen
years in the penitentiary. The crime was
charged to have been committed by Wer-
ringer upon his step-daughter, Pauline
Treder, aud it was upon her testimony that
he was convicted. Subsequently,in 1885, this
girl, on her death bed, confessed to one of
the jurymen who tried the case, that her
evidence before the jury was false, and
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ments she did by her own mother, the
wife of Werringer, who was DESTROYS of
getting rid of him, in order that she might
live with another man. The petition for
pardon was signed by all the county
officers and number of citizens, who ex-
press the belief that the man has been
unjustly incarcerated.
rom Saturday Da Y.
The comptroller received yesterday
$11,0 900 for revenue.
The following collectors settled with the
comp troller yesterday: @. G. Akers, Ia
va!la county; j. NJ. Alice, Hardeman
county; j. NJ. Foremalt, Reynolds county.
The assessment rolls of yesterday show
an increase in Milan county of $342,93S.
A charter was filed yesterday for the
Laredo Real Estate and Abstract COM
pany; capital, $4,000. Incorporators: j.
| d. Wilson, w. R. Pace, A. W. Clifford and
James F. Flynn.
The title papers of the tract of land
purchased in Coryell county for the state
reformatory, were returned to the gov
ernor yesterday and found to be all right.
| The governor thereupon approved the
purchase He will go up to Gainesville to.
morrow to make a personal inspection of
| the land.
From assessment rolls already resolved
at the comptroller's office, an increase in
the taxable values of the state is already
shown. What the amount of increase will
be cannot be stated definitely, of course,
until full returns are received, but the es-
innate now is that it be will $7,000,000 and
| $10,000,000.
The general government has furnished
700 new improved Winfield rifles to the
state and they have been received and
placed in the arsenal. They will be dis
tributed in due course to the companies
of the state. Old and worn guns will
have to be returned in full quota before
company can receive anything from the
new quota.
Captain Orsay, of the adjutant-gen-
erals office, is expected home every day,
and when he returns the full report of
the condition of the T. V. g., can be
seen.
In 1879 or 1880 Hon. Roger Q. Mills
used his influence to get from the
United States government a bat
terry of four twelve pound
Napoleon guns, with full equipment for
the Texas Old Guard, of Houston. The
company held the guns for two or three
years and then went into decay, finally
disbanding. An interesting question now
presents itself. AS the armament was
originally charged to the state, ought it
not be taken charge of by the state and
placed in the arsenal, or given to COM
panies desiring to study the methods of
artillery warfare.
Hon. +. R. Lubbock, state treasurer,
will leave on Monday for Pea Ridge, Ark,
where he will deliver an Grafton at the
unwilling of the monument to the memory
of the gallant Texas general, Ben Nc
| Culloch, who lost his life in the battle at
that place.
The comptroller received yesterday
$4,000 available school fund, and $1,000
revenue. The money for the school fund
comes from land leases and interest on
sales of school lands.
The following collectors settled with the
comptroller yesterday: E. N. Wilson,
county.
The governor received applications for
three pardons yesterday, but refused to
grant any of them.
Yesterday was the day for letting con
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the next quarter. The vestibule of the
comptroller's office was we'll filed with
tables and samples of goods required
were spread out in broad profusion. 1t is
az interesting sight to drop in and
see this bidding. The comptroller
may know all about the books of his
office, but when it comes to tea,coffee, and
different grades of sugar and the "such
like of life," married man has to come
to the front The beauties of nature are
in themselves very good, but John D. al
ways puts married man to the front to
size up the bids. The following were the
successful bidders yesterday to supply the
several asylums: Messrs. W. B. Smith,
John Bremond, Mexican, Eilers 81 Co.,
Nelson, Davis g. Co., A. S. Roberts, John
Orr and Wayland d Criser.
From Tuesdays Daily
In accordance with the understanding
between the capitol board and Mr.. Gus
Wilke, sub contractor CT new capitol build
ing, when the change was recently made
from cast-iron to galvanized iron for the
greater portion of the exterior of the
dome, the bids for the galvanized iron
work were yesterday submitted to the cap
itol commissioners and superintendent
of construction for inspection and exam
nation, and Mr.. Wilke awarded the con-